What we accomplished

In Quarter 2 of 2010 we had several major product releases. 

WPF Studio 2010.1 was launched, which added the new Views for WPF product, made numerous enhancements to various WPF control products, updated all products to target .NET 3.5 SP1, and added Visual Studio 2010 integration. 

Silverlight Studio, our new bundle of controls for the Silverlight 4 platform, was also launched.  It contains ports of our popular SyntaxEditor code editor control and the new Views for WPF product, along with other useful controls and components found in its Shared Library.

Finally, we relaunched WPFpedia.com, our 100% free community resource guide for WPF developers.  It is written using the latest web technologies and allows you to easily find information on nearly any WPF development-related topic on the web.

What’s coming next

Now that we are past the Silverlight Studio release, we’re jumping back on adding new features and enhancements to our existing WPF products for a while.  We have a lot of updates planned over the coming weeks so stay tuned to our blog for details.

For a high-level list of what we’ll be working on, please see the July 2010 newsletter that will be posted shortly.

Blog post list

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What we accomplished

In Quarter 1 of 2010 we added some very major new features to SyntaxEditor for WPF: complete code outlining support, hidden regions, intra-text adornments, and IME support.  Navigation for WPF saw the addition of a ZoomContentControl, which allows you to scroll through large content easily.

We added designer support, item templates, and toolbox integration for our products in Visual Studio 2010.

What’s coming next

We have been a little quieter on the blog the past couple months but that’s because we’ve been hard at work trying to prep WPF Studio 2010.1 so that it’s ready to go the week of Visual Studio 2010’s release in mid-April.  WPF Studio 2010.1 will be moving to target .NET 3.5 SP1 and we will be including sample projects in VS 2010 format, optionally with VS 2008 format as well.

We have some big updates to our existing products, some of which we’ll give some more info on as we get closer to launch.

We are going to be launching a new WPF control product with WPF Studio 2010.1 too.

We also have been building up our product infrastructure for a Silverlight Studio 2010.1 bundle.  This has taken a while but we are plugging through it and hope to get a public beta out in the May timeframe.  The first version will include SyntaxEditor for Silverlight and a Silverlight version of the unnamed new product.

Finally, we are very close to having a re-launch of our wpfpedia.com WPF resource guide site ready.  We’re really excited about it and we think you will be too when you get to see and use it.  The new design is very “web 2.0”.

Keep an eye on our blog for more details on all of the above.

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What we accomplished

In Quarter 4 of 2009 we mostly focused on getting the WPF Studio 2009.2 release out. 

SyntaxEditor for WPF saw major updates to the Language Designer application, along with a ton of new features including tagging, adornments, squiggle lines, and much more.

Some screens and video showing the future SyntaxEditor for Silverlight control were made available.  This control shares most of the same framework as the WPF version of SyntaxEditor.

Docking/MDI for WPF added floating document support similar to the functionality found in Visual Studio 2010.  All floating windows can now be maximized and custom chromes can be used for rendering the window border/titlebars.

Editors for WPF added a new AnalogClock controls, and used this new clock on the DateTimeEditBox dropdown when appropriate.  A new editbox and a list control were added to support easy end user editing of enumeration values.

Navigation for WPF added a new ZoomContentControl that provides an intuitive interface for scrolling/zooming any large content, such as maps, pictures, reports, etc.

Ribbon for WPF added support for multi-row in-ribbon galleries.

All WPF controls received VS 2010 and Blend 3 designer support.

The SyntaxEditor .NET Languages Add-on for WinForms added C# 4.0 and VB 10.0 parsing support.

What’s coming next

In the coming months, we plan on expanding our product line, getting more into the Silverlight realm, and updating Ribbon to use newer Office 2010 features.

Newsletters

The December 2009 newsletter gave an overview of the WPF Studio 2009.2 release along with other recent updates and future plans.

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What we accomplished

In Quarter 3 of 2009 we focused on adding some significant value to our existing products while adding some new DataGrid support.

SyntaxEditor for WPF saw the implementation of the multi-threaded syntactic/semantic parsing framework, integration with ANTLR parsers via a new add-on, AST construction and error reporting features for the MGrammar add-on, and robust hit testing.

DataGrid for WPF was introduced as a new free product for our customers.  It is a couple of add-ons that provide behavior extensions, new themes, and Editors for WPF integration with the open source Microsoft WPF DataGrid control.

Docking/MDI for WPF added tab tinting, standard MDI window icons, and magnetism features.

What’s coming next

Right now we’re doing some very major enhancements to the SyntaxEditor Language Designer tool, so that it will be very easy to create language definitions used by SyntaxEditor for WPF.  Once these enhancements are complete and documented, we’ll publish what will probably be the final WPF Studio 2009.1 maintenance release.  More information will be posted soon on the updates we’re doing.

Following the final 2009.1 release, we will be working on some big updates for a WPF Studio 2009.2 version that shouldn’t be too far behind.  One cornerstone feature of 2009.2 will be floating documents like those found in VS 2010.  We have some other surprises planned as well.

Blog post list

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What we accomplished

Quarter 2 of 2009 was extremely busy for us.  It saw the introduction of two new major WPF products: SyntaxEditor for WPF and Editors for WPF.  Both were part of the WPF Studio 2009.1 release and WPF Studio customers with active subscriptions received them free.

This release also included a new, more cost-effective bundle called WPF Essentials, which includes Docking/MDI, Editors, Navigation, Ribbon, Wizard, and the Shared Library, all for the low cost of $399.  If you are looking to get into WPF development, you won’t find a better bundle than that.

Since the release, we have continued enhancing our SyntaxEditor and Editors products.  SyntaxEditor saw UI-related find/replace functionality added and languages started using the service locator pattern.  Editors added a new TimeSpanEditBox and interop functionality was provided that allowed Editors to be easily used within PropertyGrid.  We added support for the Microsoft Pixel Shader Effects (WPF FX) Library with our transition controls.

Blog post list

Here is a quick categorized list of blog postings made in quarter 2 of 2009.  Sorry this is coming very late but better late than never!  We’ll make sure we are more on schedule next time.  More...

Here is a quick categorized list of blog postings made in quarter 1 of 2009.  We’ve done a lot of posts on SyntaxEditor for WPF and Editors for WPF functionality.  Both products will be part of WPF Studio v5.0.

We currently are working on documentation and doing other final touches in preparation for the release of WPF Studio v5.0.  Anyone with an active subscription for WPF Studio v4.5 will get v5.0 free when it is released.  More...

We’ve been very active with the Actipro Blog over the past year and plan on continuing to use our blog for communicating what is going on at Actipro as we move into 2009.

We’d like to provide a quick categorized list of blog postings made in quarter 4 of 2008.  Note that this blog posting summary and other future blog posting summaries will be tagged under the keyword blog.

SyntaxEditor for WPF

• SyntaxEditor for WPF – Mouse wheel zooming
• SyntaxEditor for WPF – Incremental parsing for syntax highlighting
• SyntaxEditor for WPF – Text statistics
• SyntaxEditor for WPF – Snapshot translation
• SyntaxEditor for WPF – Batching up replace operations
• In development at Actipro – November 2008

Editors for WPF

• First Look: Editors for WPF
• In development at Actipro – November 2008

Other WPF Products

• Major new Gauge for WPF features and controls
• Docking & MDI for WPF – Improving WinForms interop
• Ribbon and NavigationBar get new Aero themes
• New PropertyGrid features and other WPF Studio build 471 updates

Windows Forms Products

• WinForms products migrate to VS 2008 / VS 2005

Media Products

• Would you like to see XAML icons?
• New Product: Actipro Icons – Over 1,750 unique icon designs for your apps!